The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-13
JACKSON AND BOLIVAR
BRINGING FORWARD CLAIMS
FOR THE MIDLAND Road.
Strong Pleas for Its Construction -
Not Beggar, Hut Asking
Investments.

The people of Jackson and Bolivar
are ii yhtipg tooth and nail to secure
the Midland railroad by way OF theil
respective towns. To offset the six
teen aud one-half miles savsd in dis
tance from Memphis to the Tennessee
river, made by Bolivar, CORE
spondent in the West Tennessee hhig
after an examination OF a government
map, reduces the advantage to two
and ope-half miles, and that too, over
can impracticable route" The samt
correspondent pats forward another
strong plea for the road, ins seiutstion
of Bolivsr's statement that competing
lines would be avoided, se flllows:
"There is over 400 square miles oi
territory on the route from Somervjlle
TO jackson, wh ch would be tributary
to the Midland road and no other,
while on the Bilivar foute
the business, to certain extent,
would bs divided with the
Illinois Central and Mobile and Ohio,
and so much 30 as to give the Jackson
route the advantage OF at least 100
square miles or "a, COO acres OF triOu-
tsTy territory over and above the total
tributary territory on the Bolivar
rtuts, which / think we can safely
say woud add $1,000 more bales Of
cotton to the JscSson side OF the ques-
tion."
Ii . further claims that il the cotton
compressed at Jackson increases ia
tie future as it has ia the past they
safely estimate the annual number Of
bales TO be compressed two years
hence at g., ,0C0, one thil d OF which, or
10000 bales, would be shipped over
the Midland route. AS another in
ducement for the road, he closes by
diving iGto facts and figures in regard
to feight and pa senger traffic as fol-
lows:
200 tons cotton seed meal,at s8.......,S 20, ,000
60 % brls cotton seed oil at 81 ........... 5000
500 tons cotton seed AZ 81 t0............. $500
900 bales cot on at " 81 ........,",; $1,000
Trade and travel Of merchants and
her business men ..." 6CO
Town ...,.... 4,5UO
6000 tons coal At 81 50...............,..... 600
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tlUO,UU
This gives q net income to the
Midland Company Of $4,000 per an
mum, which represents a capital OF
1888, ,333, or the amount Of the sdvan-
tsges secured to them by bringing
their road through Jackson, Tenn. Ia
ther words, the annual income OF the
Midland Company derived from jack
son, Tenn, alone, would be fully $32,-
600 (b50, 600 $4,000 for Bolivar more
than 1t would b3 If they built their
road By way of B llivar.
In another column OF the Rhig ap-
pears the following reply to "a cold
shoulder stand OF a contemporary:
"The building OF this road through
Madison county means in actual
value an increase Of $500, 900 to the
taxable property Of the county. This
has nothing whatsver to do With the
incre ased value OF farming lauds along
the line and OF the increase In value
OF real estate in Jackson, which is
already taking an upward ten
dency. Neither does 1t take into con-
sideration the certainty OF getting new
manufacturing enterprises established
here and Of making 1t possible for us
10 build this up as big Wholesale
point, which would add lai gely to the
taxable wealth of the couoty. The
Midland road does not come as beg
gar, but az ks the towns and counties
along the line to subscribe for its stock
just as they ask Individuals, and to
make sure that by the sections through
which it passes being pecuniarily inter
ested, they will help to make the
road a success. The building OF
this road means the employment
OF hundreds OF laborers in
this and adjoining counties IN its con.
struction, and permanent employment
t. many ST er it il completed. L.
means giving our firmers market
for Thousands Of railroad ties. 1t
means giving convenient transporta-
ton 10 a large section OF farming
country over thirty by twenty miles
west Of Jackeon and a It'll, large scope
of rminQ community just east Of us
These do not represent fictitious
i'd az, ,bu things that will come 10 pass
lust as sure as the road is built"